Keynote Speakers

Best known for his invention, thorough elaboration, and defence of dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are true, Graham Priest has published extensively in the field of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics (East and West), and the history of philosophy (East and West). He taught at the University of St Andrews (UK), the University of Western Australia, the University of Queensland, and Melbourne University and he is a past president of the Australasian Association for Logic and the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

While the technicalities of his writings on logic go far beyond the reach of regular mortals unfamiliar with formal logic, Graham also excels in making complex ideas and problems accessible to a general audience. For a taster, compare this article with the above link on dialetheism.

Working between sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, and visual studies, Barry Sandywell has published very likely the most extensive study on self-reflection, the three-volume Logological Investigations(Routledge, 1995-1996):

Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason (vol. 1)

The beginnings of European theorizing: reflexivity in the archaic age (vol. 2)

He is currently editing (with Stanley Raffel) a collection of essays on Analytic Sociology (associated with the work of Alan Blum and Peter McHugh) with the title The Reflexive Initiative: the Grounds and Prospects of Analytic Theorizing (Routledge, forthcoming).

Every individual has unique reasons for seeing a doctor. It follows that, in order to find the appropriate remedy for each case, doctors need to pay particular attention in their endeavour to understand the individual problem.

The article introduces the central ideas of Homeopathy as put forward by Samuel Hahnemann in the 1820s, which remain valid in contemporary Homeopathy teachings although they are inconsistent with fundamental laws of nature and have been invalidated by evidence-based medicine.